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In reply to the discussion: What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)104. Excuse me? We have no "authority" to "demand" the DNA of foreigners in leadership roles.
But I would not be surprised at all if we routinely "steal" it after meetings that involve coffee and snacks and water.
You seriously think that it would inspire confidence if USA went round to world leaders with a long handled Q tip, and asked for some DNA "just in case?"
But you knew that.
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What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]
kpete
Jul 2013
OP
He was found guilty today. He will serve the remainder of his life in prison for it.
Major Hogwash
Jul 2013
#2
If I recall correctly he could have just reported it to a member of congress
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#80
True getting congress to act would be difficult but there is the other option of
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#123
Zorra, stop that. He didn't say he was pleased. He simply stated the fact. Enough.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#28
I will continue to speak out against fascists and fascism whenever, and wherever.
Zorra
Jul 2013
#86
Highly disturbing. This IS Democratic Underground. So you know, in case you've forgotten.
Divine Discontent
Jul 2013
#97
Ok, you can go crawl back into the "Cave", or the other "underground" you crawled out of...
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2013
#116
"Major Hogwash" is a character you're playing, right? Like "Miss Information"?
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#50
Are you happy about this injustice and the fact the war criminals will live out their lives in
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#58
You seem to have missed the big picture. This isn't about Manning. It's about our government.
Gregorian
Jul 2013
#68
Well, sure sounds like it's those "scoripons" for the 1 percent... nt
AnotherDreamWeaver
Jul 2013
#3
We have an up hill battle. Even some so-called Democrats here side with the authoritarian state. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#4
I think they are just afraid. They were raised in comfortable security and they are
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#59
I think a good many are Republican runaways, re-registering as Dems to escape the insane GOP
DJ13
Jul 2013
#62
LAPD clearly planted blood in OJ's house. PD's plant guns, drugs all the time. Big Govt taking cues?
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
#46
Excuse me? We have no "authority" to "demand" the DNA of foreigners in leadership roles.
MADem
Jul 2013
#104
US defense contractor involved in child traficking? Beyond vile, disgusting, horrifying!
Divernan
Jul 2013
#10
Sure thats wrong but I assume you must have meant to reply to someone else as
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#88
"you say manning broke the law" No, Manning did that when he pleaded guilty.
cstanleytech
Aug 2013
#169
I thought it was Wackenhut/Armorgroup that trafficked young boys, not Dyncorp.
OnyxCollie
Jul 2013
#26
Widespread practice, and yet people are not angered by this, but by the fact that it was revealed
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#60
In Bizarro world, child traffickers go free while those who call bullshit on it are imprisoned. n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#52
The Obama Administration: Protecting Criminals and Screwing Over Whistleblowers, 24/7
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#25
I believe I gave it more attention than Manning did the hundreds of thousands of documents he stole.
randome
Jul 2013
#130
So you want to throw the hundred thousand or so soldiers who served in Iraq in prison?
randome
Jul 2013
#137
Your quote does not support your opinion about Manning not being a whistleblower.
blackspade
Jul 2013
#139
Total sentence for all of those crimes: 0. But all of this, for revealing them.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#51
It's always a sick feeling seeing people so glibly enable that evil. "Traitors" indeed.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#63
The empire IS evil, the corporate-military the 1% banksters have built is an evil empire..,
Civilization2
Jul 2013
#70
If Obama only knew, surely he would do something. Why don't his aides tell him?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#155
Like Obama's 30,000 armed Drones flying the US skies by 2020, they're protecting the 1% from the 99%
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2013
#156
"The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General's DNA. "
GiaGiovanni
Aug 2013
#173